Baltimore students will get AP credit and help craft a national curriculum as the College Board prepares to give Africana studies its blessing, which some say is long overdue.

Parents, teachers, neighbors, churches and community groups urge two-year delay in a plan to shutter three Baltimore schools that have been a lifeline during the pandemic.

Amid surging omicron, groups representing parents and teachers had recommended a few extra days of online classes, but District officials had refused.